KR101408192B1 - Device for attating tag label with nfc label tag packet inspecting function - Google Patents

Abstract

Disclosed is a device for attaching an electronic tag having a data packet inspection function. The device according to the present invention encodes user identification information (User_UID) to a tag supplied by a tag supply part, attaches the tag separated by an air discharge system to an attachment point of a corresponding product, reads each of information from the attached NFC tag chip to determine whether the recorded chip_UID and the user identification information are matched, and stores the result of the determination in an inspection table which interconnects the chip_UID and the user identification information. Therefore, the device reduces the incidence of defective labels and rapidly replaces defective labels with new labels, thereby attaching good quality labels to products.

Description

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention [0001] The present invention relates to an electronic tag attaching apparatus having a data packet inspection function,

The present invention relates to an electronic tag attaching apparatus, and more particularly, to an electronic tag attaching apparatus, and more particularly, to a tag attaching apparatus that adds user identification information to chip identification information to generate a data packet, To an electronic tag attaching apparatus having a data packet accepting function capable of attaching an electronic tag to a target product at high speed.

Generally, in order to recognize the production history information in the products produced in the factory, marking processing or stickers are attached to specific positions of the products to identify each product.

However, in this method, only the basic information about the product is known, and the production history information or the performance inspection data for each product can not be accurately known.

Therefore, it is not easy to accurately track and manage problems occurring in a certain process in the production process, and it is difficult to confirm accurate performance information, which may cause problems in quality control.

Recently, electronic tags have been produced to display the history information, performance information and performance test results related to the production of the product using the electronic tag, and the method of attaching to the product is used for production management and distribution management .

However, in the process of attaching the label to the product, the label is attached by hand most of the time, and the productivity of the work is remarkably deteriorated.

Therefore, it is urgent to develop a device capable of attaching a label to a product at a high speed.

On the other hand, the identification information recorded on the label can also be printed directly on the container using inkjet or any other suitable printing technique. The label may include optically readable information, such as a UPC barcode. Such a label allows an optical reader using the laser beam to scan the information contained in the label, such as description, price, packaged date, or any other useful data. One disadvantage of optically readable labels is that the optical reader and the label must be in a specific spatial relationship with each other. That is, the line of sight is tomorrow, or perpendicular to the scanning direction, or within a limited range for the optical reader.

More recent types of labels store information using RFID, i.e. Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags. RFID uses radio frequency signals to obtain data from RFID tags within the area of the RFID reader. RFID transponders or tags, whether active or passive, are commonly used with RFID readers that read information from RFID tags embedded in the label.

RFID tags and labels can be obtained from ordinary suppliers. For a passive tag, a typical RFID reader / writer supplies energy to the transponder circuit in the tag by transmitting a power signal.

The power signal may carry data, the data may be stored in a transponder memory, and the transponder circuit may transmit a response signal that includes data previously stored in memory. When the transponder circuit transmits a response signal, the RFID reader / writer receives the response signal and interprets the stored data. The data is then transferred to the host computer for processing.

In this way, the wireless identification technology recognizes the information of the object and the surrounding environment from the tag attached to the object, and collects, stores, processes, and tracks the information of each object so that the positioning, remote processing, Information exchange and so on.

These technologies are expected to lead the innovations in security, safety and environmental management as well as distribution and commodity management by networking and intelligentizing the product management by replacing the existing barcode and expect to form a huge new market that did not exist before do.

In the conventional tag writing or encoding process, a tag is printed using a tag printer and then an operator attaches the tag to the article, or a tag printed on the tag printer is tagged with an automatic tag attaching device .

That is, the conventional wireless identification tag writing method is composed of a process of issuing a tag using a label or a tag printer and attaching the issued tag to an article or an automation equipment by an operator.

Such conventional information detecting apparatus using NFC is shown in Fig.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an information detecting apparatus of an NFC electronic tag terminal, which is disclosed in Korean Patent No. 10-0777372 (name: an apparatus and method for detecting information of an NFC electronic tag terminal) A control unit 20 for transferring the scanned information to an upper layer and recording and recording the information for a period of time set in the buffer unit; An application unit 30 for recording an application platform for scanning information and transferring the information to an upper layer and performing filter processing; a filter unit 40 for performing an erasure filter process when the scanned information is overlapped with information recorded in the buffer unit; A buffer unit 60 for recording the scanned electronic tag information, a timer unit 70 for counting the set cycle time, a high-frequency unit 50 for scanning in the NFC mode, The control unit 20 analyzes the control command applied from the key button unit 10 and scans the NFC type electronic tag by the SCAN The ID information and the data information of the scanned electronic tag are transferred to the buffer unit at a cycle set in the buffer unit while the platform is loaded from the application unit 30 and booted, And the information of the same electronic tag is not recorded during the set cycle time, so that the load of the upper layer for processing the data information is reduced and the electronic tag information is analyzed and processed.

The information extracted from such a tag is composed of a unique identifier (hereinafter referred to as chip_UID) and NDEF (NFC Data Exchange Format) data. Therefore, in the service using NFC, the reader detects the UID + NDEF data from the tag and manages the production history or the distribution process using the detected UID + NDEF data.

In particular, since NDEF data has a large capacity, various information can be written or changed, while Chip-UID is limited to 7 bytes, so it is not sufficient to have mutual discrimination among many tags.

In addition, it is effective to assign a common identification number and manage it when the tags are classified and used according to a specific use.

Therefore, there is a need for a method for ensuring efficient discrimination of tags.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide an electronic tag attachment apparatus having a data packet inspection function capable of attaching a label to a product at a high speed.

It is another object of the present invention to provide an electronic tag attachment apparatus having a data packet verification function capable of adding a UID to a label.

It is another object of the present invention to provide an electronic tag attaching apparatus having a data packet validating function that encodes a new UID and automatically checks the corresponding data when producing an NFC label.

It is still another object of the present invention to provide an electronic tag attachment apparatus having a data packet inspection function capable of removing a defective label when an error occurs in the inspection process.

In order to solve such a problem, an electronic tag attaching apparatus having a data packet inspecting function of the present invention includes a target product conveying section including conveying means and forming conveying condensation of a target product through the conveying means, A tag supply unit including a feed roller for feeding the tag to the target product being transported and a peeling bar for separating the tag supplied to the target product from the continuous sheet; A tag attaching portion that moves to an attaching position of the target product being conveyed after vacuum suction and attaches the separated tag to the attaching position by an air discharging method; And a tag inspecting unit for inspecting normal operation by RF communication with the tag.

The peeling bar is located at the end of the blade shape and above the end to press the tag until the continuous sheet is completely separated from the continuous sheet in the course of moving along the surface of the blade shape And an air blower for discharging air from the lower portion to the upper portion in order to maintain the tag in a horizontal state in the process of separating the tag from the continuous paper, It is preferable to further include an air blow bar.

Further, the tag attaching portion is provided with an air inlet for sucking air on the lower surface thereof and an air outlet for discharging air, so that the tag, which is delivered from the filling bar, is sucked through the air inlet, A tag pickup unit for horizontally moving the tag pickup unit horizontally to eject the air through the air discharge port to adhere the tag adsorbed on the lower surface to an attachment position of the target product, As shown in FIG.

The tag pick-up unit includes an air suction pump for sucking air, an air discharge pump for discharging air, an air suction pipe for connecting the air suction pump and the air suction port, and an air suction pump for connecting the air discharge pump and the air discharge pump And a discharge pipe,

The air suction pump performs a continuous suction pumping operation at a time regardless of the delivery timing of the target product, and the air discharge pump performs a periodic discharge pumping operation in accordance with the delivery timing of the target product.

It is further preferable that the air inlet has a plurality of air inlets and is formed in a row on a lower surface of the tag pickup unit, and the air outlet has a plurality of air outlets, and is formed in parallel with the plurality of inlets.

In order to set the air suction force of the air inlet port to be smaller than the air outlet output of the air outlet port, the number of the inlet ports is set to be smaller than the number of the outlet ports, and the plurality of outlet ports are arranged with the plurality of inlet ports therebetween, And is formed in line with the plurality of suction ports.

A second sensor unit for outputting a second sensing signal sensing a feeding position of a tag attached to the continuous sheet; And controlling operations of the target product transferring unit, the tag supplying unit, the tag attaching unit, and the tag inspecting unit, receiving the first and second sensing signals, and controlling the tag supply timing of the tag supplying unit, And a central control unit for controlling timing.

At this time, the first sensing sensor unit is installed on a conveyance path before the target product enters the tag attaching unit, and the second sensing sensor unit is installed on the filling bar.

In order to solve such a problem, an electronic tag attaching apparatus having a data packet inspecting function of the present invention includes a target product conveying section including conveying means and forming conveying condensation of a target product through the conveying means, A tag supply unit including a feed roller for feeding a tag attached to the target product to be fed and a peeling bar for separating the tag supplied to the target product from the continuous sheet; A chip_UIDI extracting unit for extracting a unique identifier (chip_UID) from the tag chip of the chip_UID extracting unit and a user identification information (User_UID) of a predetermined size to the tag chip transferred from the chip_UIDI extracting unit A unique number printing unit for, after vacuum-adsorbing the tag encoded by the unique number printing unit, And a tag attaching portion for attaching the separated tag to an attaching position of the target product by an air ejection method and a tag attached to the target product are transferred to read NFC tag chip information, And a tag checking unit for determining whether the user identification information matches the chip_UID and the user identification information, and storing the determination result in a verification table correlated with the chip_UID and the user identification information.

The user identification information (User UID) is composed of a random number generated code or a specific code provided by the user, and controls the chip_UID extracting unit, the unique number printing unit, and the tag inspecting unit, If it is determined that the label is defective according to the inspection result of the tag inspecting unit, the label is removed, the new chip_Uydy and the user identification information are replaced with the label of the removed label, The control unit may remove the chip_UIDI and the user identification information of the defective label and control the addition and correction of the new chip_UID and the user identification information.

Therefore, according to the electronic tag attachment apparatus having the data packet inspection function of the present invention, there is an effect that the electronic tag can be attached to the object product at high speed.

In addition, according to the electronic tag attaching apparatus having the data packet inspecting function of the present invention, it is possible to add user identification information to increase the discrimination power, to eliminate the possibility of copying, and to provide an extended wireless communication label There is an effect that it can be manufactured quickly.

Further, according to the electronic tag attaching apparatus having the data packet inspection function of the present invention, since the label is encoded and inspected in one process, the cause of the defective label that can be isolated can be more effectively improved.

Since the label is checked after encoding the user identification information, the incidence of bad labels is lowered and the label is quickly replaced with a new label. Thus, it is possible to provide a label of good quality.

1 is a view showing a conventional information detecting apparatus using NFC,
Fig. 2 is a main configuration diagram of an electronic tag attachment apparatus before the data packet verification function of the present invention is added; Fig.
Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the electronic tag label attaching apparatus shown in Fig. 2,
Fig. 4 is a side view of the electronic tag label attaching apparatus shown in Fig. 3,
Fig. 5 is an enlarged view of the peeling bar shown in Figs. 2 and 3,
FIG. 6 is a bottom perspective view of the enlarged view shown in FIG. 5,
Fig. 7 is a main configuration diagram of an electronic tag attachment apparatus to which a data packet verification function according to another embodiment of the present invention is added;
8 is a detailed configuration diagram of the unique number generation printing unit shown in FIG. 7,
FIG. 9 is a detailed configuration diagram of the packet checking unit shown in FIG. 7,
10 is a diagram illustrating a configuration of user identification information,
11
And,
11 is a flowchart for explaining an operation process of the electronic tag attachment apparatus having the data packet inspection function of the present invention.

It is to be understood that the words or words used in the present specification and claims are not to be construed in a conventional or dictionary sense and that the inventor can properly define the concept of a term in order to describe its invention in the best possible way And should be construed in light of the meanings and concepts consistent with the technical idea of the present invention.

Throughout the specification, when an element is referred to as "comprising ", it means that it can include other elements as well, without excluding other elements unless specifically stated otherwise. It should be noted that the terms such as " part, "" module, " .

Hereinafter, an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

As shown in FIG. 2, the electronic tag attachment apparatus 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a target product transfer unit 110, a tag supply unit 120, a tag A tag inspecting unit 140, a target product loading unit 150, and a central control unit 160. As shown in FIG.

The target product transfer section 110 includes transfer means such as a conveyor belt and forms the transfer path 20 of the product 12, 14, 16 to which the tag is to be attached via the transfer means.

The target products 12, 14, 16 may be paper or plastic for forming a packaging box to which a tag can be attached, and are not particularly limited thereto. Do not.

The tag supply unit 120 separates the electronic tags attached to the continuous paper such as the carrier tape and separates the tag T separated from the continuous paper by the target products 12, As shown in FIG.

The tag attaching unit 130 receives the tag T separated from the continuous sheet and attaches the tag T separated by the non-contact attaching method to the attachment position of the target products 12, 14, 16, .

Here, the non-contact attachment system refers to a system in which a tag T separated from continuous paper is vacuum-adsorbed and then the tag T is attached to the attachment position by an air ejection method. A detailed description thereof will be described in detail below.

The tag inspecting unit 140 may be a test reader installed at the rear end of the tag attaching unit 130 in the conveying path 20 to determine whether the tag T is normal to the target product 16. [ Such a tag reader for testing determines whether or not the attached tag T is operating normally by transmitting and receiving RF data for testing to and from the tags T attached to the target products 12, 14, 16, and 18 by RF communication .

 The target product loading unit 150 separates the target product to which the normal tag is attached and the target product to which the abnormal tag is attached based on the result of the determination by the tag checking unit 140, It is discharged and used for destruction processing or reproduction.

The central control unit 160 controls overall operations of the target product transfer unit 110, the tag supply unit 120, the tag attaching unit 130, the tag inspecting unit 140, and the target product loading unit 150.

The central control unit 160 may be connected to each communication line so as to communicate with the configurations 110, 120, 130, 140 and 150 and may control the tag supply timing of the tag supply unit 120 and the tag attaching timing of the tag attaching unit 130 do.

To this end, the tag attaching apparatus 100 may further include sensors for sensing the position of the tag T, and a description thereof will be described in detail below.

FIG. 3 is a perspective view showing the tag attaching apparatus shown in FIG. 2, and FIG. 4 is a side view of the tag attaching apparatus of FIG.

As shown in the figure, the target product transfer unit 110 includes a transfer table 112 on which a part of the target products 12, 14, 16, and 18 are seated, a transfer table 112 on which a remaining portion of the target product is seated, And a conveyance belt 114.

The conveyor belt 114 includes a conveyor belt 114A for conveying the target product in units of a unit and a vacuum belt 114B for preventing the conveyance path of the target product from departing from the conveyance path during conveyance of the target product.

The vacuum belt 114B is formed with a plurality of air inlets 114B-1 connected to an air suction pump (not shown), and is seated on the Kenda Belt 114A to absorb the object to be conveyed.

Therefore, since the target product is transferred on the conveyor belt 114A in a sucked state, it is possible to prevent deviation of the target product in the conveying process.

In addition, a detection sensor S1 such as a photosensor that detects the position of the target product is embedded in the transfer table 112. [ When a part of the target product passes over the detection sensor S1, it senses it and transmits it to the central control unit 130.

Then, the central control unit 130 automatically controls the supply timing of the tag supply unit 120 and the attachment timing of the tag attaching unit 130, which will be described in detail below, based on the detection signal.

The tag supply unit 120 separates the tag T attached to the continuous paper CT (hereinafter, referred to as a carrier tape) and supplies it to the target product. The tag feeder 120 feeds the tag T attached to the carrier tape CT and the tag T fed through the feed roller 122 from the carrier tape CT And a separating peeling bar (124).

The feed roller 122 includes an unwinder 122-1, a plurality of feed rollers 122-2, 122-3, 122-4, 122-5, 122-6, a plurality of feed rollers 122- 7, 122-8, 122-9) and a rewinder 122-10 (rewinder).

The unwinder 122-1 is a structure for mounting a roll type carrier tape CT and includes a carrier tape CT to which a tag T is attached is supplied to the peeling bar 124 the carrier tape CT is loosened to keep the tension of the carrier tape CT.

The un-winder 122-1 can receive the rotational force from the conventional motor (not shown), and releases the carrier tape CT according to the transmitted rotational force.

The plurality of feed rollers 122-2, 122-3, 122-4, 122-5 and 122-6 feeds the carrier tape CT to be peeled off from the unwinder 122-1 to the peeling bar 124 The transporting roller 122-3 of the plurality of transporting rollers 122-2, 122-3, 122-4, 122-5, and 122-6 is connected to a pivotable tension bar (TB) It is possible to move up and down and adjust the tension of the carrier tape (CT).

The plurality of feed rollers 122-7, 122-8 and 122-9 feeds the carrier tape CT from which the tag T has been separated via the peeling bar 124 to the rewinder 122-10.

The rewinder 122-10 is a device for rewinding the carrier tape CT separated from the tag T by rotating in the direction opposite to the direction of rotation of the unwinder 122-1, 1, a detailed description thereof will be given with reference to Figs. 5 and 6. Fig.

Fig. 5 is an enlarged view of the filling bar shown in Figs. 2 and 3, and Fig. 6 is a bottom perspective view of the enlarged view shown in Fig. 5. As shown in Fig. 5, the filling bar 124 has a blade- And includes an air blow bar 124C located at a lower portion of a downholder 124A and an end 124A located at an upper end of the end portion 124A.

The end portion 124A of the peeling bar 124 is processed into a blade shape to easily separate the tag T from the carrier tape TC.

The tag T from the carrier tape CT can be prevented from being bent as the carrier tape CT is abruptly folded at the end portion 124A in the course of the movement of the carrier tape CT along the surface of the end portion 124A of the blade shape. ml Separation begins to occur.

At this time, the downholder 124B located on the end portion 124A continuously presses the tag T from which the separation has been started until it is completely separated from the carrier tape CT, so that the tag T is released in the separation process .

The air blowing bar 124C maintains the horizontal state of the tag T using air so as to smoothly transmit the tag T separated from the carrier tape CT to the tag attaching portion 130 described in detail below do.

As shown in FIG. 6, a plurality of air outlets 124C-1 are formed in the air blow bar 124C to discharge air in a direction from the lower part of the end portion 124A of the peeling bar 124 to the upper direction.

The air discharged from the lower side to the upper side from the plurality of air discharge ports 124C-1 is prevented from being bent in the downward direction in the course of the carrier tape CT moving along the surface of the end portion 124A of the peeling bar 124 The tag T is kept horizontal even in the process of separating the tag T from the carrier tape CT.

The air blow bar 124C is connected to an air pump (not shown) through the air pipe 124C-2 to discharge the air in the upward direction.

On the other hand, as shown in FIG. 5, a sensing sensor S2 is provided on the peeling bar 124 to sense the feeding position of the tag T.

The detection result of the detection sensor S2 provided on the peeling bar 124 is transmitted to the central control unit 160 together with the detection result of the detection sensor S1 embedded in the transfer table 112, 160 use the detection results of the detection sensors S1 and S2 to detect a conveyance speed of the conveyor belt 114A, a supply timing of the tag supply unit 120 (for example, an unwinder and a rewinder and a rotation cycle) (For example, the horizontal movement period and the air ejection period of the vacuum ejection feeder 131A, which will be described below), automatically.

Hereinafter, the tag attaching portion 130 will be described with reference to Figs. 3 and 4. Fig.

The tag attaching unit 130 receives the tag T separated from the carrier tape CT by the peeling bar 124 and attaches the separated tag T to the attaching position of the target product at a high speed.

In order to perform such a high-speed attachment operation, the process of receiving the tag T separated from the peeling bar 124 as well as the attaching process must be performed at a high speed.

In the present invention, as described above, the tags separated by the non-contact method are received and attached to the attachment positions of the target products (12, 14, 16, 18) in a non-contact manner.

To this end, the tag attaching unit 130 includes a tag pick-up unit 131 and an air cylinder 133, as shown in FIG.

The tag pick-up unit 131 can be further divided into a vacuum feeder 131A and a horizontal moving member 131B.

The vacuum feeder 131A has an air inlet for sucking air formed on the lower surface thereof and an air outlet for ejecting air. The tag T transmitted from the peeling bar 124 through the vacuum feeder 131A is sucked to the lower surface through the air inlet.

Thereafter, the vacuum feeder 131A horizontally moves to the attachment position of the article to be conveyed, and the air is strongly ejected through the air outlet so that the attracted tag is fired at the attachment position of the target article.

Thereafter, the air cylinder 133 is horizontally fixed again to the end portion of the peeling bra 124, and the air cylinder 133 horizontally moves the vacuum discharge feeder 131A through the piston rod 135.

Hereinafter, a structure for forming the air inlet and the air outlet formed on the lower surface of the vacuum feeder 131A will be described.

6, the lower side of the vacuum discharge feeder 131A is viewed from the front. As shown in the figure, the air inlet is formed with a plurality of suction holes H1 spaced apart from each other by a predetermined distance. The air discharge port has a plurality of discharge ports H2 and is formed in parallel with the plurality of suction ports H1.

Here, the plurality of discharge ports H2 periodically discharge air in accordance with the supply timings of the tags transmitted through the peeling section 124, while the plurality of suction ports H1 continuously supply air It is designed to suck.

The discharge of air must be precisely synchronized with the delivery timing of the target product and must be periodically discharged, but it is more important to adjust the supply timing of the tag than the transfer timing of the target product.

Of course, periodic air suction process may be performed so as to be precisely synchronized with the tag supply timing from the peeling bar 124. In this case, however, the product failure due to the poor adhesion of the tag due to the high-speed tag supply timing is minimized, It is more desirable to continuously inhale rather than inhale air at periodic timing for tagging.

Therefore, in the present embodiment, since the process of sucking air through the plurality of air inlets H1 is continuously performed in the vacuum ejection feeder 131A, the airtoot output discharged from the plurality of air outlets H2 is larger than the air- Should be set to a large value.

If there is no difference between the air-to-air output and the air suction force, the tag adsorbed on the lower surface of the vacuum feeder 131A may not be fired at the attachment position of the target product during the air discharge.

Accordingly, in the present invention, the number of air outlets and the number of air inlets are different from each other in order to form a difference between the air toe output and the air inhale.

That is, the number of the air intake ports formed on the lower surface of the vacuum discharge feeder 131A is smaller than the number of the air discharge ports.

In the embodiment shown in Fig. 6, a plurality of air inlets are arranged in a row in parallel with a plurality of air inlets, so that the number of air inlets is smaller than the number of air outlets.

On the other hand, for continuous air suction and periodic air discharge, the vacuum discharge feeder 131A includes an air suction pipe P1 for connecting the air suction pump and the air suction port, and a sandy air discharge pump and an air discharge pump And an air discharge pipe P2 to which the air discharge pipe P2 is connected.

At this time, the air suction pump performs a continuous suction pumping operation at a time regardless of the delivery timing of the target product, and the air discharge pump performs a periodic suction pumping operation in accordance with the delivery timing of the target product.

In FIG. 6, the air suction pump and the air discharge pump are not shown for the sake of simplicity.

3, the target product 18 to which the tag T is attached through the tag attaching unit 130 is inserted into the target product through the tag inspecting unit 140 provided at the rear end of the tag attaching unit 130 18 passes under it, it is judged whether or not the tag T attached to the target product 16 is normal by RF communication.

The result of the judgment by the task reader RF reader 140 is transmitted to the central controller 160, and the management of the defective product is automatically performed through the central controller 160.

Here, the product failure judgment by the central control unit 160 can be largely divided into a defect judgment of a target product to which an erroneous tag T is attached and a defect judgment of a target product to which a tag T is not attached.

The defect determination of the target product to which the erroneous operation tag T is attached can be performed by analyzing the RF data for testing between the tag inspecting unit 140 and the tag T. [

The defectiveness of the target product to which the tag T is not attached can also be determined through analysis of RF data for testing.

For example, if the tag checking unit 140 can not receive any data from the target product, it can recognize that the tag is not attached to the target product.

However, there may be a case where the target product is stopped at a position outside the communicable range under the tag checking unit 140 due to a failure of the conveyor belt 114A.

Even in this case, since the tag checking unit 140 can not receive any data from the target product, the tag checking unit 140 recognizes that the target product is not tagged.

In other words, the central control unit 160 recognizes that the conveyor belt 114A is not defective due to the tag attachment even though there is no problem in the operation of the conveyor belt 114A, so that the defect management of the correct product can not be performed.

In this embodiment, as shown in FIG. 2, the tag attaching unit 130 and the tag inspecting unit 140 are provided with a surveillance sensor S3 for detecting a tagged product.

That is, the sensing sensors S1 and S2 described above are used to determine the supply timing and the attachment timing of the tag, while the sensing sensor S3 provides the leading timing of the tag checking unit 140, And it is used to determine whether the defect is due to the unattached state or the failure of the attached tag.

In the present invention, the central control unit 160 can accurately manage the defective product by additionally installing the detection sensor S3.

Information extracted from such a tag is composed of a unique identifier (hereinafter referred to as chip_UID) and NDEF (NFC Data Exchange Format) data.

Therefore, in the service using NFC, the reader detects the UID + NDEF data from the tag and manages the production history or the distribution process using the detected UID + NDEF data.

In particular, since NDEF data has a large capacity, various information can be written or changed, while Chip-UID is limited to 7 bytes, so it is not sufficient to have mutual discrimination among many tags.

In addition, it is effective to assign a common identification number and manage it when the tags are classified and used according to a specific use.

Therefore, the present invention provides an electronic tag attaching apparatus that has a data packet check function and adds a UID requested by a user or a UID generated by a random number to a tag, and transmits an electronic tag having a data packet check function Tag-attaching device.

Hereinafter, an electronic tag attaching apparatus having a data packet check function will be described with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 7 is a main configuration diagram of an electronic tag attaching apparatus having a data packet check function according to another embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 8 is a detailed configuration diagram of the unique number generation print section shown in FIG. 7, and FIG. 7 is a detailed configuration diagram of the packet checking unit shown in FIG.

As shown in the figure, an electronic tag attaching apparatus having a data packet inspecting function according to the present invention includes a target product transferring unit 110, a tag supplying unit 120, a tag attaching unit 130, a tag inspecting unit 140, (150) and a central control unit (160), and a unique number generating and printing unit (180) is added to the electronic tag attaching apparatus (100).

Accordingly, the functions of the tag checking unit 142 and the central control unit 162 for controlling the tag checking unit 142, which are related to the addition of the unique number generating and printing unit 180, will be partially described.

Referring to FIG. 7, there are shown a target product conveying unit 110 including conveying means and forming conveying condensation of a target product through conveying means, a feeding roller for feeding a tag attached to the continuous sheet to a target product to be conveyed, A tag supply unit 120 including a peeling bar for separating a tag T supplied to a target product from the continuous paper, a user identification information User_UID in a tag chip of a label supplied from the tag supply unit 120, A unique number generating and printing unit 180 for encoding an original number, a tag generated by the unique number generating and printing unit 180 is vacuum-adsorbed, and is moved to an attachment position of a product to be transferred, A tag attaching unit 130 for attaching the tag to the target product at the attachment position of the target product, a tag attached to the target product to be transferred, reading the NFC tag chip information, Determining whether a match with the beam, and consists in the determination result including the chip _ yuahyidi and tag 142 for storing the user identification information to the cross-linked verification table.

That is, the tag is supplied to the unique number generating and printing unit 180 to record user identification information (hereinafter referred to as User_UID) information in the NFC tag T transferred from the tag supply unit 120 to the continuous process.

To this end, the unique number generating and printing unit 180 writes different User_UID information in a plurality of labels supplied in an individual roll, a plurality of rolls supplied in a packet form, or a plurality of labels successively transferred from the plurality of tag supply units 120 It is constituted so that it can inspect.

That is, the unique number generating and printing unit 180 may supply the roll-shaped labels supplied from the tag supply unit 120 in parallel and write different User_UID information on each label, So that different User_UID information can be written in the label transferred from the user.

To this end, the unique number generating and printing unit 180 includes a chip_UIDI extraction unit 220 for extracting a unique identifier (chip_UID) from a label to be fed, A unique number generating unit 184, a unique number printing unit 185, a chip_UIDI extracting unit 182, a unique number generating unit 184 and a unique number generating unit 184 for generating and printing user identification information (User_UID) And a central control unit (162) for controlling the number printing unit (185).

The chip_Uydia extracting unit 182 is configured to extract a chip_UID using a normal NFC antenna from a label to be fed.

The user identification information (User_UID) of the predetermined size generated by the unique number generator 184 generates an NFC signal to the antenna installed under the label of the NFC tag T transmitted by the unique number printing unit 185 and outputs User_UID information Upon transmission, the antenna is operated to write User_UID information in the NFC tag.

At this time, it is possible to use a radio wave shielding device for each adjacent antenna so that the corresponding User_UID information can be written only in the NFC tag to be written, and the size of the electronic discarding can be set so as to include only one NFC tag Of course.

For this purpose, the unique number printing unit 185 includes a sensor recognition unit (not shown) for detecting an encoding mark in the tag chip to write User_UID information on the transferred NFC tag chip, It is possible to record User_UID information on the tag chip of the inlay on the basis of the mark.

Although it has been described that the mark for encoding is confirmed by the sensor recognition unit and the lighting is performed, the present invention is not limited to such a configuration for more accurate lighting.

For example, according to contents programmed in a control unit having a programmable logic controller (PLC) function, the NFC tag chips are sequentially moved to predetermined positions, and then the User_UID information is written. When writing is finished, the next NFC tag chip is moved again, Such that the encoding is performed automatically and sequentially.

Further encoding and / or printing may be performed based on information stored in the NFC tag chip or optically readable information. This is because it has advantages such as flexibility of the manufacturer and effective control of the manufacturing process to customize the label in producing a more universal label.

Referring to FIG. 10 illustrating a configuration of the user identification information, a User_UID, which is an identification number assigned by a user, is associated with each Chip_UID to form a data packet.

The Chip_UID is configured to have a size of 7 Bytes, but it is preferable that the User UID is configured to have a size such that the size of the User UID can be distinguished by the use place without limiting its size.

Such user identification information (User UID) may be composed of a random number generated code or a specific code provided by a user.

That is, a code that can be identified by the use place can be provided and recorded. If the code is not provided, the code for the user identification information encoding company generates the random number so that the code is not duplicated.

Preferably, the User_UID is provided by receiving a code that can be identified by the use place, so that it is possible to have a unique identifying power for each use place, and there is an advantage that the management can be thoroughly performed.

As described above, when the unique number printing unit 185 finishes recording the User_UID information, it is sent to the tag inspecting unit 142 to perform the inspecting operation of the corresponding label and remove the bad label.

The above-described chip_UIDI extracting unit 182 and the unique number printing unit 185 are general components for extracting and encoding the data stored in the NFC label, and a detailed description thereof will be omitted.

After the writing of the User_UID information required for the NFC tag chip thus transferred is completed and transferred to the tag inspecting unit 142, the tag inspecting unit 142 performs inspection of the transferred label.

To this end, the tag checker 142 is installed after the unique number printing unit 185 on the process, and is configured to be able to read the written NFC tag chip information as data packets, respectively. The read information is a circle before writing (The data packet including the Chip_UID and the newly-written User_UID) and the check result for each Chip_UID of the packet checker 142a and stores it as a data packet type check table The result storage unit 142b, and the label determined to be defective in the inspected label to be replaced with a new label.

The result storage unit 142b is converted into a file so that the inspection result can be displayed on the detection result output unit 142c, and is stored in, for example, an Excel file, and the inspection result is displayed.

 Referring to the figure showing an example of the acceptance table in Fig. 11, a terminal number column for recording the terminal number reading each tag chip information in order, and a Chip_UID field for recording the chip unique identification number of the tag chip A user ID for recording the user identification number, a result of recording the verification result, a processing date for recording the verification date, a configuration display unit 310 for displaying a processing time column for displaying the verification time, The verification result recording unit 320 may be configured to record the verification result in the vertical direction corresponding to the configuration of the configuration display unit 310. [

If it is determined that the bad label has been generated as a result of the inspection, the central control unit 162 removes the bad label, and controls the new chip_Uydia and the new user identification information to replace the lit label with the position of the removed label do.

When the defective label is removed, the central control unit 162 deletes the information of the defective label on the inspection table, and controls the replacement of the newly replaced chip_UID and the new user identification information.

In addition, the packet inspection unit 142a may further include an inspection function for determining whether the chip-to-user and user identification information is read from the NFC tag chip of the label and matches the data stored in the inspection table, It is of course possible to remove the corresponding defective label and allow the new chip_UID and the new user identification information to replace the lit label with the position of the removed label.

At this time, if the defective label is removed, the central control unit 162 deletes the information of the defective label in the inspection table, and controls the replacement of the newly replaced chip_UID and the new user identification information.

Hereinafter, an operation process of the above-described configuration will be described with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 12 is a flowchart for explaining the operation of an electronic tag attaching apparatus having a data packet inspecting function according to the present invention. When a product is fed from a target product feeding unit 110 (S210) (S220).

The unique number generating and printing unit 180 writes different user identification information on the label having the near field communication (NFC) inlay attached thereto and proceeds to step S231 to S234 for validating the written information.

More specifically, the Chip_UID extractor 182 extracts the chip_UID (Chip_UID) from the tag feeder 120 or the NFC tag chip by receiving each label attached with the inlay (S231).

In step S232, the unique number generator 184 generates a user identification number. The generated user identification number is different from the user identification information (User_UID) of a predetermined size for each chip_UID (Chip_UID) extracted in step S231 And is encoded into a tag chip (S234).

At this time, the central control unit 162 encodes the User_UID and stores the user identification information (User_UID) assigned to the chip_UID (Chip_UID) in the acceptance table.

When the tag User_UID information is encoded in step S234, the tag attaching unit 130 attaches the tag T to the target product (S240).

When a tag is attached to the target product, the tag inspecting unit 142 inspects the encoded tag. The packet inspecting unit 142a reads the information stored in the tag chips of each inlay to different information reading terminals, (S250). If it is determined to be normal in step S250 (S252), it is transferred to the target product loading unit 150 to load the target product (S260).

However, if it is determined in step S250 that the readout result information does not match, the new user identification information is written in the new Chip_UID label to replace the written label with the position of the defective label, and the chip- And the user identification information are removed, and the verification table is modified by adding a new chip_UID and user identification information.

At this time, if an error occurs, an error is displayed. If the defect is serious, the system may be stopped and the defective label may be removed (S251).

Thereafter, the NFC inlay removing the defective label over the second order is packed together with the label attached thereto and the information stored in the inspection table (S500).

As described above, according to the electronic tag attachment apparatus provided with the data packet inspection function of the present invention, since the label having the user identification information that can be easily identified by the user can be attached to the target product at high speed, It is possible to supply only excellent labels.

While the present invention has been particularly shown and described with reference to exemplary embodiments thereof, it is evident that many alternatives, modifications and variations will be apparent to those skilled in the art.

12, 14, 16, 18: Target product 110: Target product transport section
112: conveying table 114: conveying belt
120: tag supply unit 122: supply roller
122-1: Unwinder 122-2, 122-3, 122-4, 122-5, 122-6: Feed roller
122-7, 122-8, 122-9: Feed roller 122-10: Rewinder
124: Filling bar
130: tag attaching unit 140: tag inspecting unit
150: target shop loading section 160: central control section
180: unique number generation printing unit 182: Chip_UID detection unit
184: unique number generating unit 185: unique number printing unit

Claims (14)

A target product conveying unit including conveying means and forming conveying condensation of the target product through the conveying means;
A first surveillance sensor unit for outputting a first sensing signal sensed at a transfer position of the target product;
A tag supply unit including a supply roller for supplying a tag attached to the continuous paper to the target product being transported and a peeling bar for separating the tag supplied to the target product from the continuous paper;
A second sensing sensor unit for outputting a second sensing signal sensing a supply position of a tag attached to the continuous paper,
A tag attaching portion for attaching the separated tag to the attaching position by an air discharging method after moving the tag separated from the continuous paper to the attaching position of the target product being conveyed after vacuum suction;
A tag inspector for receiving the tag attached to the target product and inspecting whether the tag is normally operated by RF communication with the tag;
Wherein the control unit controls operations of the target product transfer unit, the tag supply unit, the tag attaching unit, and the tag inspecting unit, receives the first and second detection signals, and transmits the tag supply timing of the tag supply unit, A central control unit for controlling the control unit;
And a data packet inspection function including the data packet inspection function.

The method according to claim 1,
The filling bar
An end of the blade shape; and
A down holder positioned above the end portion and pressing the tag until the continuous paper is completely separated from the continuous paper in the process of moving along the surface of the blade shape;
And a data packet inspection function including the data packet inspection function.
3. The method of claim 2,
The filling bar
An air blow bar positioned below the end portion and discharging air from a lower portion to an upper portion in order to maintain the horizontal state of the tag during the separation of the tag from the continuous paper;
And a data packet validation function that further includes a data packet validation function.
The method according to claim 1,
The tag attaching portion
An air suction port for sucking air on the lower surface and an air discharge port for discharging air so as to suck the tag transmitted from the peeling bar through the air suction port and horizontally move to an attachment position of the target product being conveyed, A tag pick-up unit for discharging the air through an air outlet and attaching the tag adsorbed on the lower surface to an attachment position of the target product;
An air cylinder for horizontally moving the tag pickup unit through a piston rod;
And a data packet inspection function including the data packet inspection function.
5. The method of claim 4,
The tag pick-
An air suction pump for sucking air;
An air discharge pump for discharging air;
An air suction pipe connecting the air suction pump and the air suction port;
An air discharge pipe connecting the air discharge pump and the air discharge pump;
And a data packet inspection function including the data packet inspection function.
6. The method of claim 5,
The air suction pump
Performing a continuous suction pumping operation at a time regardless of the delivery timing of the target product,
The air discharge pump
And a data packet inspection function for periodically performing a discharge pumping operation in accordance with a delivery timing of the target product.
5. The method of claim 4,
The air inlet
And a data packet inspection function formed side by side with the plurality of suction ports, wherein the air discharge port has a plurality of discharge ports, the plurality of suction ports being formed in a line on a lower surface of the tag pickup unit. 8. The method of claim 7,
Wherein the number of the suction ports is smaller than the number of the discharge ports in order to set the air suction force of the air suction port to be smaller than the air discharge output of the air discharge port. 8. The method of claim 7,
The plurality of discharge ports
And a data packet inspection function formed in a line in parallel with the plurality of suction ports with the plurality of suction ports interposed therebetween.
delete The method according to claim 1,
The first sensing sensor unit
Wherein the target product is installed on a transport path before entering the tag attaching portion,
The second sensing sensor unit
And a data packet inspection function provided on the filling bar.
delete A target product conveying unit including conveying means and forming conveying condensation of the target product through the conveying means;
A tag supply unit including a supply roller for supplying a tag attached to the continuous paper to the target product being transported and a peeling bar for separating the tag supplied to the target product from the continuous paper;
A unique number generating and printing unit that encodes user identification information (User_UID) in a tag chip of a label supplied from the tag supply unit;
A tag attaching unit for attaching the separated tag to an attachment position of the target product by an air discharging method by moving the tag encoded by the unique number generating and printing unit to the attaching position of the target product being conveyed after vacuum suction; And
The tag attached to the target product is transferred to read each of the NFC tag chip information to determine whether it matches the recorded chip_UID and the user identification information, and the determination result is correlated with the chip_UID and the user identification information A tag checking unit for storing the data in a table;
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The unique number generating and printing unit
A chip_UIDI extracting unit for extracting a chip unique identifier (chip_UID) from the tag chip of the label supplied from the tag supply unit;
A unique number printing unit for encoding user identification information (User_UID) of a predetermined size in the tag chip transferred from the chip_Uydia extracting unit;
A chip number extracting unit, a unique numbering unit, and a tag inspecting unit, and stores the acceptance table of the tag inspecting unit as a file, removes the label when it is judged to be defective according to the inspection result of the tag inspecting unit, Replacing the lit label with the location of the removed label, removing the chip_UIDI and user identification information of the bad label from the inspection table, and transmitting the new chip_UID and user identification information A control unit for controlling to additionally perform correction;
And a data packet validation function that further includes a data packet validation function.
14. The method of claim 13,
The user identification information (User UID)
A random number generated randomly or a specific code provided by a user.

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